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...Kenneth E. Reeves '72 was mayor of Cambridge from 1992 to 1995 and has served on the City Council since 1990.Crimson file photoCity Councillor KENNETH E. REEVES...
DIED. VIRGILIO BARCO, 75, Colombian President whose social reforms were undercut by his unrelenting war against cocaine barons; of stomach cancer; in Bogota. A former mayor, the owlish-eyed, professorial Barco stammered his way to the presidential palace in 1986. With neither flair nor fanfare, he hunkered down to combat poverty and drugs until his administration was overrun by vengeful cartels...
...House correspondent. After World War II, President Harry Truman appointed Sengstacke, a vocal critic of discrimination in the military, to the committee charged with eradicating race barriers in the armed forces. Sengstacke also pushed the Brooklyn Dodgers to sign Jackie Robinson. Sengstacke was considered close to Chicago's Democratic mayors, but refused Mayor Richard J. Daley's entreaties that he help prevent violence during the riots of the summer of 1967. At the time, he told Daley he'd been "giving you suggestions for two years and you've been ignoring them. And now you want me to create...
ENGAGED. GEORGE SHULTZ, 76, former Secretary of State, to Charlotte Mailliard Swig, 63, chief of protocol for San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown...
DIED. ART HANES, 80, die-hard segregationist Southern mayor; in the city he ruled for a single, notorious term, Birmingham, Ala. In 1962 Hanes shut down Birmingham's parks rather than open them to blacks; in 1968 he became James Earl Ray's first lawyer...